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Orange is the New Black: Finding a Balm for Your Pain

3 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / June 27, 2016 / Beth Fowler, Diane Guerrero, Jackie Cruz, James McMenamin, Jessica Pimentel, Kate Mulgrew, Laura Prepon, Laverne Cox, Lea DeLaria, Lori Petty, Michael Torpey, Natasha Lyonne, Orange is the New Black, Ruby Rose, season 4, Taryn Manning, Taylor Schilling, The Naked City, Yael Stone

Orange is the New Black season 4 puts viewers through the wringer. Abuse, murder, death, mental illness, surviving rape, corporate greed. It’s dark and horrifying. There are moments of hope, of light. There are ways of dealing. I thought it would good to end my series of posts on the latest season of Orange is the New Black with something …

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Brad William Henke in Orange is the New Black

Orange is the New Black’s Damning Portrait of For-Profit Prisons

9 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / June 22, 2016 / Alan Aisenberg, Beth Fowler, Brad William Henke, Danielle Brooks, Dascha Polanco, Diane Guerrero, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Emily Althaus, Eric Garner, for-profit prison, Jackie Cruz, Jenji Kohan, Kate Mulgrew, Laura Gómez, Lauren Morelli, Laverne Cox, Michael Torpey, Mike Birbiglia, Nick Sandow, Orange is the New Black, Samira Wiley, season 4, Selenis Leyva, Tanya Wright, Taylor Schilling, transgender issues, Uzo Aduba, Vicky Jeudy

There are a lot of things wrong with the United States of America. The broken justice (injustice) system is one of the worst. In season 4 of Orange is the New Black, the for-profit aspect of that brokenness is explored in damning detail. Litchfield, a minimum security women’s prison, is turned into a battlefield with corporate greed directing the battle. There …

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